A Comparative Study of the Aesthetics of Equivoque in Persian and Arabic Rhetoric

Abstract

Abstract Equivoque is considered as the worthiest and most artistic figures of speech. In equivoque the speaker generatesdifferent levels of meaning through the expansion of meaning for a word. Equivoque is defined as using a word with two meanings andintending for the second far-fetched one while the listener supposes that the first and the clearmeaning should be noted. There are different types of equivoque: solitary (abstract or single), disclosed, proportional, antagonism, complex, double inverse proliferation, and …. This study tries to investigate equivoque anditscreation process in the different typesmentioned. The differences among classifications− from rhetorical point of view− in Arabic and Persian languages are studied as well.

Keywords

• key words:equivoque
• mimesis
• rhetoric in arabic and persian literature